As the World Turns.

Mayor Jim West is a mystery, especially to himself:

"I have no opponent other than the person they created who is supposedly me," West said.

The mayor created his own "imaginary person" through which he lived a vast and secret online life. But he says it would also be unfair for voters to judge him as that character. "What it really allows me to do is be somebody I'm not," West said.

But even he has difficulty sorting out the real from the make-believe.

"And this is weird. This is incredibly weird for me. This is an imaginary person and this is a real person," he said, pointing with a finger on each hand. "And there are points in time where they cross over a little bit. But few and far between."

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A European fund tied to Our Noe has faltered.
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The search is on for a successor to Henry "youthful indiscretion" Hyde.
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Some members of one family took "family togetherness" very literally.
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There is hope for unionization in the historically anti-union South, in this case Texas.
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